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Tornado Warning 48, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this tornado warning at Jul 31, 2008, 7:36 AM CDT for Kandiyohi County, McLeod County, Meeker County, Minnesota. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 31, 2008, 7:36 AM CDT (12:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 2008, 8:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Kandiyohi County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 4:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 305 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -575 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1838 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -419 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -171 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KMPX 311236 TORMPX MNC067-085-093-311315- /O.NEW.KMPX.TO.W.0048.080731T1236Z-080731T1315Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 736 AM CDT THU JUL 31 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN KANDIYOHI COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA... SOUTHERN MEEKER COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA... NORTHWESTERN MCLEOD COUNTY IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA... * UNTIL 815 AM CDT * AT 730 AM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD BETWEEN LITCHFIELD AND GROVE CITY. RADAR INDICATED ANOTHER STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR BLOMKEST. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 44 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS INCLUDE... COSMOS... STROUT... LITCHFIELD... CORVUSO... CEDAR MILLS... DARWIN... DASSEL... THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 4516 9427 4490 9430 4490 9495 4514 9487 TIME...MOT...LOC 1235Z 287DEG 38KT 4499 9475 $$ BAP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 5:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Swift | 48 min |
| Jul 31, 5:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine | 55 min |
| Jul 31, 5:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Meeker, Renville | 43 min |
| Jul 31, 5:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Lac qui Parle, Renville, Swift, Yellow Medicine | 66 min |
| Jul 31, 6:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine | 51 min |
| Jul 31, 6:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Meeker, Redwood, Renville, Swift | 58 min |
| Jul 31, 6:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Nicollet, Renville, Sibley | 60 min |
| Jul 31, 6:48 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Kandiyohi, Swift | 42 min |
| Jul 31, 6:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chippewa, Swift | 50 min |
| Jul 31, 6:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Brown, Le Sueur, Nicollet, Redwood, Renville, Sibley | 64 min |
| Jul 31, 7:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Meeker, Wright | 54 min |
| Jul 31, 7:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Redwood, Renville | 46 min |
| Jul 31, 7:20 AM CDT | High Wind Warning | MPX | Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine | 100 min |
| Jul 31, 7:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Watonwan | 63 min |
| Jul 31, 7:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Le Sueur, McLeod, Nicollet, Renville, Scott and 1 more | 58 min |
| Jul 31, 7:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Blue Earth, Le Sueur, Nicollet, Waseca | 66 min |
| Jul 31, 7:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Faribault, Martin | 61 min |
| Jul 31, 8:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Hennepin, Le Sueur, Rice, Scott, Steele and 1 more | 50 min |
| Jul 31, 8:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Freeborn | 54 min |
| Jul 31, 8:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dakota, Goodhue | 56 min |
| Jul 31, 8:47 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Goodhue, Rice, Steele | 18 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.